debian
For those of you who don't know, I have run some distribution of Linux on my laptop since 2006 (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Fedora, and currently Debian(in that order)) and I currently run Debian GNU/Linux on the server that runs this blog. Most Linux distributions release
Archival Issues
I’m not usually one for New Year’s Resolutions, since I end up not keeping them. But I wanted to put out some professional resolutions and hopefully by putting them out in public, I’ll be more likely to keep to them. Those are the four resolutions that I’
Archival Issues
As you may have heard, Facebook has been planning to allow all of its users to download all of their information. At least for my account, that promise has now become a reality. Not only is this good for people concerned with , but this is also good for archivists. Now
Life
The summary: The details: I am moving this blog from http://amongotheritems.org to http://amongotheritems.org. I first registered this domain name in 2006 when I was a junior in college and I wanted to play around with having my own server and my own domain name. It changed
access
(I originally wrote this a week ago, before this article was posted, but they dovetail well.) In the course of my work I did a brief survey of the copyright policies of some academic libraries and their archives, specifically focusing on websites and finding aids. I found that most libraries
australia
The federal government of Australia is considering banning its citizens from viewing a list of 10,000 websites that it deems objectionable. Specifically, the the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy said that the list of banned websites will include: Now, I'm all for getting rid
browser
So, in my followup to my first Browser ennui post, I have decided to stay with Firefox, albeit upgrading to 3.6 beta 5, and keeping 3.5.6 on my computer as well. 3.6b5 is faster than Firefox 3.5.6, and only occasionally crashes (usually on sites
Archival Issues
I got a Barnes and Noble nook, which is an ebook reader, for Christmas. So far, I've only loaded it up with free ebooks from Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is a project whose goal is to digitize out of copyright books and make them freely available online. So
browser
Browser ennui, part 2 at Among Other Items - Dec 3, 2009 [...] in my followup to my first Browser ennui post, I have decided to stay with Firefox, albeit upgrading to 3.6 beta 5, and keeping 3.5.6 on my [...]
Archival Issues
TomG - Nov 5, 2009 I had a 1 yr subscription to MobileMe (mac) for my version of LOCKSS and it never worked as well or fast as the free service from Dropbox. I use Dropbox to LOCKSS all our family computers now and it works great. If anyone is
Life
So I got a projector today! Hurray! I got it from UNC's surplus warehouse, which is where they take all sorts of things when they are no longer used in the office form which they came. You can find all sorts of things there, such as old laptops,
Life
So I'm now starting to hit the point that I always hit when I start a new blog, the point when I run out of things to say on it. Usually, thats when I give up and ignore that blog for months on end. On my old livejournal,